(May 6) -- America's latest multimillionaire isn't giving up her day job -- make that her night job.

Jacki Cisneros, who works as an overnight assignment editor at the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles, said today she wants to keep working despite snagging a $266 million Mega Millions windfall.

"I probably will continue working for as long as KNBC will allow me," she told NBC's "Today" show. "I can't imagine not working. It's a foreign concept to me."

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In fact, Cisneros continued working even after she learned that her out-of-work husband, Gilbert, had bought the winning ticket. She finished her shift at 8 a.m. Wednesday and asked her colleagues to keep her name a secret until she was ready to step forward, assignment manager David Reese told The Associated Press.

She discovered they were the lucky couple when a news bulletin moved Tuesday night that the winning ticket had been bought at a restaurant in Pico Rivera. News producer Jeff Evans remembered Cisneros was from Pico Rivera and handed her the advisory.

She woke her husband at home and demanded he look at his tickets. Then came the screams -- and tears.

"Initially I wanted to go home but I was so nervous and I was shaking and I felt that my legs were going to fall out from underneath me that I probably should just stay there and sort of regroup," she told "Today."

The couple owe their new mega-wealth to Gilbert Cisneros' spur-of-the-moment decision on where to get dinner.

Though Jacki craved a KFC Double Down chicken sandwich, Gilbert wanted to stop at a Mexican restaurant as he drove home from jury duty in downtown Los Angeles. But he balked at the parking fee, so he ended up at a barbecue joint, where he also picked up 10 lottery tickets for good measure. He told KNBC that he picked the numbers at random.

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"Buy a house -- somewhere," Jacki Cisneros told the "Today" show. "We don't know where now. We're like kids in the candy store."

For his part, Gilbert, who had been laid off from his job at KNBC two weeks ago, is considering contributing to their alma maters and "also to give back to our church. Try and do what's right," he told "Today."

Word of the staggering win became a boost to the station's newsroom. The media business may be in financial trouble, but one journalist won't have to worry about her bottom line for a long time.

"It renews your faith in the universe that something like this can happen to someone who really deserves it," colleague Nicole Stevenson told the AP.